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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1922
Page
2
Late news items from Crowell to Stamford recounts of farm yields, accidents, deaths, town plans, and public notices across West Texas and Oklahoma border towns. Highlights include a wheat harvest tie, a fatal shooting near Teague, hospital plans in Amarillo, and a fatal auto collision near Caddo Mills.
Disjointed report recounts a funeral in Greenville where 10 hooded Klansmen appeared and placed a wreath on Padgett Beeklam’s grave. Other items note a service driver killed in Graham, a man dying in a bank in Barnett, and various scattered local incidents across towns, with chaotic OCR fragments throughout.
Report cites multiple lynching incidents across Texas Georgia Florida Louisiana and the Carolinas with 28 black victims and two white victims while a tax lapse leads to forfeiture of about 1000 charters and permits by the state secretary’s office with confirmation by chief clerk Payne.
Preparations are underway for the annual Northwest Press Association meeting at Wiehits Walls Angrst 1¢ and Ee Barford 3. Peows at Electra, presisfens offfie Association is arranging an interesting program.
Rey I J Mims arrived to lead the First Baptist Church sermonizing on the parable of the rich young man. He urged cooperation to make the year fruitful in church work and urged listeners to forsake sin and believe to gain eternal life, noting righteous acts do not save without Christ.
The first unit of a large power plant near Lubbock is finished and will feed high transmission lines across the South Plains to towns like Abemathy, Phat Center, Phinview, Idalon, TLorenze, Rulie and Crosbytey. Total investment nears a quarter million dollars with plans to extend lines to the region. Call Kell Milling Co for dish towel sacks at sixty cents per dozen.
Vernon baseball club extended its winning streak by crushing Medicine Mound 40 to 3 on Friday afternoon and winning 10 to 4 against Perk on Sunday in rain. Vernon dominated play with rapid ball movement and scoring, while an upcoming Vernon vs American Legion pick team game drew interest with Legion players predicting a challenge.
Douglas Fairbanks stars in a celulloid version of The Three Musketeers at the Vernon Theatre for the first two days of the week. The show includes Famous plays The Three Guardsmen and Twenty Years After with Porthos Athos and Aramis in perilous adventures. A lighter segment features Fairbanks answering Edison style questions on shellac moonscan prune cork wood and other curiosities.
A column of witty Q A exchanges ends with a note about Douglas Fairbanks in Three Musketeers at the Vernon Theatre on Tuesday. The sharp banter includes playful misdirections on science and history topics.
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